24 SEPTEMBER 2007

24 SEPTEMBER 1997 : TRAN DUC LUONG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VIETNAM

He was born on 5 May 1937 in the central province of Quang Ngai.
He spent three years learning mining in the Soviet Union and joined the Communist party of Vietnam in 1959.

Several times minister : Industry, Tranports, Foreign trade before to be vice-chairman of the Council of ministers in the government of Vo Van Kiet in 1987.

Elected president on 24 May 1997, he resigned on 24 juin 2006 and replaced by the incumbent president of Vietnam Nguyen Minth Triet

OTHERS FACTS:

1841: The sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the Britains

1877 : Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the imperial Japanese Army over the samurai Satsuma Rebellion

1991 : North and South Korea admitted at United Nations

1993 : Promulgation of the new constitution of Cambodia. The prince Sihanouk, 38 years after he abdicated become again king of Cambodia. His son Norodom Ranariddh is named First Prime Minister and Hun Sen Second Prime Minister.

1996 : China signs the treaty of the total interdiction of nuclear testings (CTBT)

BIRTHS

1929: Toru Oshira, Japanese actor

1945: Kuan Tai Chen, Chinese actor and producer

1980: Sabrine Maui, a Filipina pornographic actress

1981: Yuki Matsuzaki, Japanese actor and producer

DEATHS

2004 : Raja Rammana, Indian physicist

2006 : Padmini, Indian actress

But the main event in Asia history on a 24 September is the birthday of our Asia Observer member Elejs from Singapore : Happy birthday Elejs !

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25 SEPTEMBER 2007

25 SEPTEMBER 1771 : BIRTH OF EMPEROR QIANLONG

Born Hongli, he succeeded his grandfather Kangxi on 18 October 1735 until 9 February 1796. He abdicated in the favor of his son Jiaqing, because he din’t want to reign more longer than his venerated grandfather but kept the full power up to his death on 7 February 1799.

During his reign, Qianlong was a successful military leader, gaining control of Xinjiang and sending armies into Tibet establishing the dalai lama as ruler with a Qing resident and garrison to preserve Chinese suzerainty.

It is during his reign that the British tried to establish diplomatic links with China. But the embassy failed because ambassador refused to kneel in front of the empty throne

Qianlong was also a major patron of the arts.

To see more on Qianlong : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianlong_Emperor

OTHER FACTS

1950 : Seoul is retaken by the United Nations forces http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/25/ newsid_4606000/4606807.stm

1977: Visit to Beijing of the chief of the Philippines armed forces General Espino

1972 : Visit of Kakuei Tanaka to China :En of the state of war between the two countries and decision to establish diplomatic relations

2006 : Chen Liangyu, secretary of Shanghai municipal communist party committee is dismissed for corruption

2007 : Yasuo Fukuda élu Premier Ministre

BIRTHS

1358: Shogun Ashikaga

1881 : Lu Xun (Zhou Zhangshu), one of the most famous Chinese writer

1937: Soichiro Kitamura, Japanese actor

1942: Jin Nakayama, Japanese actor

1954: Shen Yueming, Chinese actress

DEATHS

1333 : Prince Morikuni, shogun

1617 : Japanese Emperor Go-Yosei

2005 : Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist

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26 SEPTEMBER 2007

26 SEPTEMBER 1953 : DEATH OF XU BEIHONG

Xu Peihong is mainly know under the name of Hsu Pei-hung. He is considered as a modern master in China painting.

He was born in Yixing (Jiangsu province) on 19 July 1895. After studying classic Chinese works and calligraphy with his father, then painting.

He travelled to Tokyo in 1917 to study art and in 1919 to Paris where he studied oil painting and drawing and visited a lot of western art centers.

He came back to China in 1927 gaining a lot of posts including teaching at the National Central University of Nanjing.

After the founding of the PRC in 1949, Xu became president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

After his death of a stroke in 1953, a Xu Beihong Museum was establish at his home in Beijing
To see paintings of Xu Beihong http://www.xubeihong.org/

OTHER FACTS

1940 : Japanese forces land at Haiphong

1950 : Seoul in UN hands http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/25/ newsid_4606000/4606807.stm

1950 : Indonesia admitted as a United Nations member

1959 : Sri Lanka Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike is assassinated by a monk

1984 : The United kingdom and China agree for the handover of Hong Kong on 1st July 1997.

1989 : Vietnam announces its full withdrawall from Cambodia

2006 : Shinzo Abe becomes the younger Prime Minister since the WW2

BIRTHS

1932 : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

DEATHS

1620 : Emperor Taichang

But the more important fact in Asia history is that today is the birthday of Asia Observer member Formosafamos from Taiwan.


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27 SEPTEMBER 2007

27 SEPTEMBER 1996 : THE TALEBAN SEIZED CONTROL OF KABUL

On that day, the Taleban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and hanged the former president Najibullah (see picture below)

The Taleban movement was formed in Pakistan among Afghan refugees of Sunni Muslim Pashtun ethny in 1994 with the help of the Palistani military secret services.

Pakistan launch this new movement because it was disappointed that the Pashtun wardlor Gulbuddin Ekmatyar was unable to take control of Aghanistan who was ruled by a Tajik president

On 5 November 1994, the Taleban seized Kandahar. Their leader, the mullah Omar stay there to direct the country.

Because the Taleban offered refuge to Ben Laden and Al-Qaida, the US started to attack them in Octobre 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/27/ newsid_2539000/2539973.stm

OTHER FACTS

1928 : The Republic of China is recognized by the United States

1959 : Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon

1977 : Important speech of Prime Minister Pol Pot showing a full alignement of Kampuchea with China

1988 : The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, is founded

1997 : In Thailande, the parliament adopts a new chart (constitution), the 15th since 1932, suspended in September 1996

2002 : Le East Timor is admitted to United Nations.

BIRTHS

1914 : Jukichi Uno, Japanese actor

1942 : Lee Merily, Filipino cinematographer

1942 : Masaru Ikeda, Japanese actor

1953 : Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), an Indian saint

1975 : Megumi Ohji, Japanese actress

1975 : Hong Kong actor Sam Lee

DEATH

1557 : Emperor Go-Nara (1526-1557)

28 SEPTEMBER 2007

28 SEPTEMBER 1947 : BIRTH OF SHEIKH HASINA WAZED

Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Bangladesh independence who was killed in a coup d’état on august 15, 1975 with all his family by disgruntled officers of the Bangladesh Army.

Hasina and her sister Rehana escaped the killing because they were abroad at this time.

After a self-exile in Great Britain then in India, she came back to Bangladesh on 17 May 1981 after the assassination of the erstwhile president Ziaur Rahman and elected president of Bangladesh Awami League, the following year general Ershad made a coup d’état and declared martial law in 1982.

After the first democratic elections in 1991, she was fighting mainly against Khaleda Zia, president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), widow of general Zia. She always thank that general Zia was involved in her family killing in 1975. So the relations between the two leaders of the two main parties are so full of hatred and are deeply disrupting the political life in Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina has been Prime Minister from 23 June 1996 to 15 July 2001. After her defeat in the 2001 elections, she chosed to play the street demonstrations politics. She decided to boycott the planned January 2007 elections.

She has been arrested on July 16, 2007, accused of extortion and for that she masterminded the killing od four supporters of a rival party in October 2006. In the main time, her rival Khaleda Zia is also in jail.
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/biography/hasina.html

OTHER FACTS

1950 : Indonesia is admitted as United Nations member

1954 : Nikita Khrushchev in China

BIRTHS

551BC : Confucius

1867 : Hiranuma Kiichiro, Japanese Prime Minister in 1939 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiichiro_Hiranuma

1910 : Diosdado Pangan Macapagal, president of thePhilippines (1961-1965) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diosdado_Macapagal

1959 : Yu Tohui, Japanese actor

1959 : Hiroyuki Konishi, Japanese actor

1982 : Kazue Fukiishi, Japanese actress

1986 : Daniel Zhao, Chinese actor

DEATHS

1974 : Kajiro Yamamoto, Japanese director

1989 : Deposed president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos (1966-1986) in exiile in Hawaii at the age of 72 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos

2000 : Pote Sarazin, Thailand ex-Prime Minister http://www.cabinet.thaigov.go.th/eng/pm_09.htm

But the most important fact in Asia history on this day is the birthday of Asia Observer member Geiryeh from Taiwan

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29 SEPTEMBER 2007

29 SEPTEMBER 1967 : PRESIDENT JOHNSON PROPOSES TO HANOI TO STOP BOMBIMGS IN EXCHANGE FOR NEGOCIATIONS

On March 2, 1965, following an attack on a US Marines barrack at Pleiku (South Vietnam), the USA decided to launch the Operation Rolling Thunder who ended on 1 November 1968

The operation, including bombing of Hanoi, was intended to force North Vietnam to cease its support to the National Liberation Front (South Vietnam communist rebellion). A total of one million tons of missiles, rockets and bombs have been droped during this operation

The proposition of Johnson, in a speech delivered in San Antonio (Texas) was a large concession of the USA. It was no more the condition that North Vietnam stop its support to NLF, but only to agree to negociate

It is only on 27 December that Hanoi answered by saying that negocations were possible only after the halt of American bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder

OTHER FACTS

1856 : French expeditionnary forces landed at Tourane (Danang)

1972 : Diplomatic relations established between China and Japan.

1979 : Self-criticism of the Chinese Communist Party for the excess of the Cultural Revolution

2007 : Bomb attack at Malé (Maldives), twelve foreign tourists wounded

BIRTHS

1920 : Moriyoshi Matsura, Japanese film maker

1946 : Ravi Baswani, Indian actor

1968 : Samir Soni, Indian actor

1969 : Mikado Shiroyama, Japanese actress

1970 : Yoshihiro Jajiri, Japanese actor

1974 : Tsubasa Akimoto, Japanese actress

1977 : Joo-ri, Korean actress

1979 : Hirobuto Hong, Japanese actor

1979 : Tou Chih-kung, Taiwanese actor

1979 : Ariji Yûko, Japanese actress

1980 : Audrey An (An Yixuan), Taiwanese actress

1980 : Kanako Enomoto, Japanese actress

DEATHS

1976 : Chinese director Huang Tang

2001 : Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (1967-1975)



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30 SEPTEMBER 2007

30 SEPTEMBER 1917 : BIRTH OF PARK CHUN-HEE

After 15 years of repressive government, Syngman Rhee, Major General Park Chung-hee carried out a military coup d'état followed by an anti-corruption campaign that was welcome by the general public.

As president, Park instituted central planning and industrial policy and looked to prewar Japan as model for developing the South Korean economy.

The Park administration was ultra-nationalistic and anti-market, harking back to a Confucian culture.

The Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), formed under the guidance of the US CIA, was Park's apparatus for domestic security.

Park normalized relations with Japan in 1965 amid massive popular anti-Japan protests at home.

Under Park, South Korea sent 300,000 troops to Vietnam, and was rewarded by the United States with war purchases that helped the Korean economy and political tolerance that consolidated his rule.

Park was assassinated on October 26, 1979. The assassin was the head of the KCIA, Kim Jae-kyu, who worked closely with the US CIA.

Interview of ex US ambassador http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/park1.html

OTHER FACTS

1949 : End of the first session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (which started on 21). Adoption of a common program

1959 : Coming back from the United States, Nikita Krushchev goes to China to meet with Mao Zedong

1965 : Attempted of leftist coup d’état in Indonesia (Gestapu). Sukarno is under house of arrest and Suharto the new master of the country.

1969 : Thailand announces the gradual withdrawal of US forces stationed on its territory

1975 : The United Nation General Assembly postpones the question of admitting the two Vietnam.

1990 : the Soviet Union and South Korea opened diplomatic relations

BIRTHS

1207 : Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Afghan scholar and Sufi poet

1932 : Shintaro Ishihara, writer and governor of Tokyo since 1999

1958 : Shinya Ohe, Japanese actor

1961 : Sally Hey, Hong Kong pop star and actress

1970 : Yuto Kazuma, Japanese actor

1977 : Sun Juhai, Chinese actor

1981 : Lu Lu (Li Xiaohu), Chinese actress

DEATHS

1551: Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord by hara-kiri

1996 : Asao Uchida, Japanese actor

2006 : Jun Tarara, Japanese actor

But the most important fact in Asia on a 30 September is the birthday of Asia Observer member Diamond (Philippines)

1 OCTOBER 2007

1 OCTOBER 1887 : BALUCHISTAN CONQUERED BY THE BRITISH

The Baluchistan is now the largest province of Pakistan with a large part of its population from Iranian origin

Afghanistan never recognized the integration of Baluchistan in the Pakistan in 1948 and since there are several separatist armed movements fighting the Pakistan authority

OTHER FACTS

1868 : Chulalongkorn (Rama V) is coronated

1949 : Mao Zedong declares the founding of the People Republic of China

1953 : Signature at Washington of the mutual security treaty between the USA and South Korea.

1960 : Signature, at Beijing, of a treaty fixing definitively the borders between China and Burma

1977 : Pol Pot attends the Chinese national day in Beijing

2001 : The ex-president of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui, who was president of the KMT during 12 years is expelled from the party for his support to a new party : the Union for Taiwan Solidarity

2002 : Sign of progress in the relations between Beijing and the dalai lama ? the Tibetan in exile government asks the Tibetan diaspora do not demonstrate against Jiang Zemin during his USA visit.

2005 : Three bombing attacks at Kuta and Jimbaran, two touristic sites Bali. 26 deads and more than 100 woundeds . The underground Jemaah Islamiyah, linked to Al Qaïda is supposed to be responsible for the attacks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/1/ newsid_4965000/4965712.stm

2006 : The Thai retired general Surayud Chulanont, member of the king private council is named Prime Minister.

BIRTHS

1896 : Liquat Ali Khan, first Pakistan PM (1947-1951)

1922 : Chen-Ning Yan, 1957 Physics Nobel Prize

1958 : Birth of Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician

1970 : Birth of Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor


DEATHS

1901 : Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan from 1880

1979 : Yakeo Muzutani, Japanese actress born in 1905
2004 : Kim Kumija, Japanese actress born in 1958

Today is China National Day, have a nice day Caroline, Kylie, Andybrew, Ai1Peng, Aihua, Billysun, DSPC, Gdiyahoooboss, Gucci, Jinwei, Kangdingyi, all the MKTG (mainly Roseline and Yuki), Renee, Rosabrie, Samaraxiafei, and all your Chinese members and friends

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2 OCTOBER 2007

2 OCTOBER 1946 : BIRTH OF THAILAND GENERAL SONTHI BOONARATGLIN

The first ever Muslim officer to become Thai Army commander and laid the bloodless military coup which expelled Thaksin Shinawatra from power on 19 September 2006, has resigned as chief of the Council for National Security on 30th September 2007 and replaced by the Air Forces commander Chalit Pukbhasuk. So he is now free to enter in politics as a civilian

See picture
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5361932.stm

OTHERS FACTS ON 2 OCTOBER

1775 : Death of Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet

1869 : Birth of Gandhi

1904 : Birth of Lal Bahadur Shastri (Indian 3rd Prime Minister (1964-1966)

1924 : Birth of Tanpan Sinha, Indian film director

1938 : Birth of Wahid Murad, Pakistani film actor and director

1939 : Birth of Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Japanese actor


1950 : Death of Persis Khambatta, Bombay Indian actress

1973 : Birth of Miako Tanado, Japanese actress

1976 : Birth of Hu Jingfen, Chinese actress

1978 : Birth of Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanase actress

1981 : Birth of Toro, Taiwanese singer

1988 : Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders free elections



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3 OCTOBER 2007

03 OCTOBER 1957 : BIRTH OF TOMOKO HOSHINO

Tomoko Hoshino is an Japanese actress and essayist graduated from Hosei University.

One of her best role was in Lost Paradise (Shitsurakuen) directed by Yoshimitsu Morita (1997)

It is the tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them, based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe (see picture)

OTHER FACTS ON 3 OCTOBER

2333 BC : Legendary founding of the Chosun kingdom by Tangun

1678 : The Taj Mahal, an architectural masterpiece in Agra (India) is completed after 22 years’work

1893 : Conférence de Bangkok. Délimitation des zones d’influence britannique et française en Extrême-Orient

1938 : Birth of Michiko Hamamura, Japanese actress

1956 :Birth of Toshihiro Hirano, Japanese film director

1969 : Birth of Japanese musician Tetsuya Ogawa

1980 : Death of Dan Zhao; Chinese actor, director and writer

1983 : Birth of Hiroki Suziki, Japanese actor

1984 : Birth of Yoon Eun-hye, Korean actress

1999 : Death of Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony Corp

2006 : Death of Filipina bishop Alberto Ramento, stabled to death in his house

2006 : North Korea announces that it will soon test an atomic bomb

Today is National Germany National Day.
Hi Lahoff, Die_Jess, Mcuss and Pixelpainter have a nice day

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